This song is loosely based on the Icelandic explorer, Erik Thorvaldsson, or more commonly referred to as, Eric(k) the Red. While not the first to discover Greenland, he is attributed to be the first European to permanently settle the island.
Why I take refuge here, my father was
Outlawed from the old land in east
A story of bloodshed and I too was outlawed
Now I take refuge here
What brings you here my friend, what brings
You north to where hell is of ice
South from the sand dunes where hell is of
Fire, why have you come so far
Anywhere, you don't care where you
Go as long as there are faithless you can
Make believe need help
And that you have the cure, of your
Intentions, I'm sure
I can't bring it all to reason you've
Convinced these people that all
Their ancestors were wrong, disoriented they
Do not know where they belong
Like a virus you'll go on, and when I'm dead and gone
Both sides waging war will be for one true divinity
Like a virus you'll go on, and when I'm dead and gone
Both sides waging war will be raging in the
Name of one true divinity
This I don't understand, why this perverted
Superhuman ideal
So we are born to nothing but torture and
Torment, that, I don't understand
Clearly I see the end, I pray that the embers
Will persist from my faith
Clearly I'm outnumbered, allegedly outdated
Since your arrival here
Anywhere, you don't care where you
Go as long as there are faithless you can
Make believe need help
And that you have the cure, of your
Intentions, I'm sure
I can't bring it all to reason you've
Convinced these people that all
Their ancestors were wrong, disoriented they
Do not know where they belong
Like a virus you'll go on, and when I'm dead and gone
Both sides waging war will be for one true divinity
Just convert the whole wide world, into the
Abyss we are hurled
Sentenced come end of the world, spare me
Your selfrighteous word
Eric the Red was written by Heri Joensen.
Eric the Red was produced by Týr.
Týr released Eric the Red on Fri Jun 27 2003.